Exclusive: Facebook's new face — The social networking company now wants to become a place for anyone to build applications for social computing. Fortune got an inside look. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Facebook may turn out to be a lot more important than any of us thought.

Facebook: The social Web utility company — The suspense is nearly over. In about an hour, Facebook will lift the veil on its plans to turn its social networking site into a platform that its makers hope becomes a pervasive ecosystem. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls this latest interation …

FACEBOOK PRESS CONFERENCE—LIVE! — Facebook is making a major platform announcement today at 3:00 PM PDT. We'll be at the press conference and, unless there's a clamp on video rights during the event, we'll be streaming it live, using Veodia (preview) technology. … See more Facebook coverage on Webware.

A Makeover for Facebook, and a Growing Audience — With an ambitious strategy for expansion, Facebook is getting in MySpace's face. — Facebook, the Internet's second-largest social network, was originally popular on college campuses, but over the last year it has opened its dorm-room doors to all …

Facebook aims to be Social OS — Facebook's platform strategy will be announced today in San Francisco. In discussions with multiple sources involved with the launch, we've come to see the platform as a highly ambitious idea, approaching the idea of Facebook being an operating system with other web apps riding on top of it.

Live at the Facebook Launch — Mark Zuckerberg is channeling Steve Jobs here at Facebook's big launch day. A giggle just went through crowd at his presentation of the three key elements of his announcement, complete with choreographed hand gestures and reiteration: "deep integration, mass distribution, and new opportunity."

Facebook's plan to hook up the world — The company's boy-wonder CEO wants to take social networking out of the dorm room and make it a platform for new businesses, reports David Kirkpatrick in a Fortune exclusive. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Imagine that when you shopped online for a digital camera …

Wal-Mart to Sell Dell Desktops in Stores this June — Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Dell, Inc. announce that the two companies will partner to sell Dell Computer desktops in Wal-Mart stores nationwide, beginning June 10, 2007. The agreement includes the launch to two Dell products offered …

RESTful Web Services — RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month. I interviewed the authors yesterday for an upcoming ITConversations show, but I also want to spell out here why I think it's such an important book. — In the realm of IT you could hardly pick a more controversial topic.

Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini — Even while at the top of its game, Apple Inc. can seemingly find faults with just about anything, including a bit of itself. The Mac maker is constantly evaluating the market segments in which it wishes to participate and those which it does not.

Because paper is scarce. And so is time. — Andy Kessler has an excellent piece in today's Wall Street Journal titled A Future For Newspapers. (In case that last link leads you to a paywall, Andy has the whole thing on his blog as well. That rocks.) Here's where Andy sees the hope:

THERE'S A HOLE IN YOUR TWITTER — You know Twitter, yeah? And you know how people love it because they can stay in touch with their friends and communicate privately what they're up to? — Well. If you use it like this and are happily twittering away about people you work with …

N.J. Sues YouTube over Deadly Crash Footage — The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is suing several video sites, including YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of car crash footage recorded on the turnpike, eWEEK has learned. — The footage in question was recorded by a NJTA video camera.

Advisory board finale — Every so often I get an email asking what's up with the RSS Advisory Board. — Here's what I thought in May 2004: "This group is not a standards organization. It does not own RSS, or the spec, it has no more or less authority than any other group of people who wish to promote RSS."

Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? — Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton gives the full-disclosure treatment to the widely known and surprisingly simple technique for finding treasure-troves of credit card numbers online. He points out how the credit-card companies …